scholarly journals Swiss Women in Chemistry – Two Years Later ...

2021 ◽  
Vol 75 (12) ◽  
pp. 1088-1090
Author(s):  
Maud Reiter ◽  
Rachel Hevey ◽  
Rebecca Buller ◽  
Inga Shybeka
Keyword(s):  
Chemical Society ◽  
Career Stages ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Supportive Community

The SCS Swiss Women in Chemistry network was launched in September 2019. Under the umbrella of the Swiss Chemical Society, its aim is to create visibility, facilitate networking and provide a supportive community for female chemists in Switzerland across all career stages both in industry and academia. The current article provides an overview on the platform's activities over the past two years.

Pioneers of Japanese Participation in IUPAC

2019 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 16-19
Author(s):  
Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
Keyword(s):  
East Asia ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Chemical Society ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
The Past ◽  
Asian Nation

Abstract East Asia occupies a substantial position in IUPAC today. The incumbent president for 2018-2019, Qi-Feng Zhou, is from China/Beijing, and three out of ten elected members of the Bureau are from East Asia: Mei-Hung Chiu from China/Taipei, Kew-Ho Lee from Korea, and Ken Sakai from Japan. This region is thus well-represented in the IUPAC leadership. However, this is not how this now global institution looked in the past. Its first president from East Asia was Saburo Nagakura (b. 1920) from Japan who assumed this office from 1981-1982, more than 60 years after the IUPAC was established in 1919. He was followed by Jung-Il Jing from Korea (2008-2009), Kazuyuki Tatsumi (2012-2013) from Japan, and Zhou. In terms of national adhering organizations (NAOs), Japan was the first East Asian nation admitted to IUPAC in 1921, but we had to wait until the late 1970s for all other national chemical communities in East Asia to be officially admitted to the IUPAC: The Chemical Society Located in Taipei in 1959, the Korean Chemical Society in 1963, and the Chinese Chemical Society in 1979. East Asia’s position in the IUPAC is the outcome of a rather long historical process.

What a Simple Letter-Detection Task Can Tell Us About Cognitive Processes in Reading

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 417-424 ◽  
Author(s):  
Raymond M. Klein ◽  
Jean Saint-Aubin
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Processes ◽  
Visual Presentation ◽  
Detection Task ◽  
Societal Implications ◽  
Large Set ◽  
Letter Detection ◽  
Attentional Disengagement ◽  
The Past ◽  
Lexical Activation ◽  
Current Article

Understanding reading is a central issue for psychology, with major societal implications. Over the past five decades, a simple letter-detection task has been used as a window on the psycholinguistic processes involved in reading. When readers are asked to read a text for comprehension while marking with a pencil all instances of a target letter, they miss some of the letters in a systematic way known as the missing-letter effect. In the current article, we review evidence from studies that have emphasized neuroimaging, eye movement, rapid serial visual presentation, and auditory passages. As we review, the missing-letter effect captures a wide variety of cognitive processes, including lexical activation, attention, and extraction of phrase structure. To account for the large set of findings generated by studies of the missing-letter effect, we advanced an attentional-disengagement model that is rooted in how attention is allocated to and disengaged from lexical items during reading, which we have recently shown applies equally to listening.

scholarly journals Teacher leadership in Lithuania

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 ◽  
pp. 123-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agne Brandisauskiene ◽  
Jurate Cesnaviciene ◽  
Ramute Bruzgeleviciene
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Leadership ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
School Community ◽  
Learning Network ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Ongoing Project

Over the past 25 years, Lithuania has established a system of education based on humanistic and democratic relationships. In this system, teacher leadership is highly important, as it serves as the basis for school community “reculturisation” and improvement. The aim of the current article is to overview the situation of teacher leadership in Lithuania, emphasising the aspect of teacher cooperation. The three characteristics of Lithuanian teacher leadership that we present demonstrate that teacher cooperation remains a challenge in the country. Teachers are reluctant to discuss and render improvement proposals, and lack experience of teamwork. Nevertheless, it is to be expected that the ongoing project “Time for Leaders,” will produce the necessary cultural change required to create a learning network of teachers and establish genuine, open and professional dialogue.

scholarly journals Victor Herbert Veley, 1856 - 1933

1934 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 228-235
Keyword(s):  
Nitric Acid ◽  
Chemical Society ◽  
Past Century ◽  
University Staff ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
The Past ◽  
Scientific Meetings ◽  
The University

On August 20, 1933, there passed away at the age of 77 one of the older Fellows of the Chemical Society, and yet another of the Oxford University staff of the Odling regime, in the person of Dr. Victor Herbert Veley, F.R.S. Those who worked in the University laboratories in the last decades of the past century and the first few years of the present will recollect with a sigh of affection the well-known spare figure with the humorous twinkle of the eye, and the clothes well stained with nitric acid ; and those Fellows in the habit of attending scientific meetings in London in the first decade of the present century will perhaps associate his presence with a certain unwonted liveliness .

Monastic Patronage and Temple Building in Contemporary Sri Lanka: Caste, Ritual Performance, and Merit

2007 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 769-795 ◽  
Author(s):  
JEFFREY SAMUELS
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
First Century ◽  
Religious Experiences ◽  
Ritual Performance ◽  
The Past ◽  
Caste Discrimination ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Lay Buddhists ◽  
Monastic Patronage

The current article examines temple building and shifting monastic patronage in twentieth and twenty-first century Sri Lanka. Drawing heavily on fieldwork conducted in two separate upcountry villages over the past five years, the author argues that far from passively accepting the failings of local monastics, lay Buddhists are actively and directly involved in shaping their own religious experiences. In examining closely numerous conversations centered on temple construction, this article pays particular attention to how notions about ideal ritual performance, caste discrimination, and merit-making provide lay donors with the needed impetus for building new monastic institutions and, thus, establishing a choice of temple patronage where little or no such choice previously existed.

scholarly journals Assessment of various treatment modalities for isolated gingival recession defect- A retrospective study

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (SPL3) ◽  
pp. 3-7
Author(s):  
Karthikeyan Murthykumar ◽  
Arvina Rajasekar ◽  
Gurumoorthy Kaarthikeyan
Keyword(s):  
Gingival Recession ◽  
Treatment Modalities ◽  
Root Coverage ◽  
Aesthetic Outcome ◽  
Free Gingival Graft ◽  
The Past ◽  
Current Article ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Gingival Graft ◽  
Coverage Score

Esthetic demands among the patients have increased markedly over the past few years. The Gingival recession is one of the prime concerns, and there are various treatment modalities in managing recession defects. Most often, outcomes following root coverage procedures are not assessed. Thus the current article aims to determine the aesthetic outcome following various treatment modalities for root coverage procedures using Recession Score (RES). In the present study, seventeen patients with Miller Class I, II and III recession defects treated with root coverage procedures were evaluated retrospectively. Esthetic outcomes were assessed using the root coverage score (RES) . Among 17 managed recession sites, 6(35%) had complete root coverage. Three of six patients who attained complete root coverage had a perfect score (RES-10). Free Gingival Graft showed better root coverage and recession score (RES); however, there was no significant association between root coverage, RES and various treatment modalities used for recession coverage (p>0.05).

Variation within a Greek-Cypriot community of practice in London: Code-switching, gender, and identity

2014 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 287-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katerina A. Finnis
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Practice ◽  
Community Of Practice ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Code Switching ◽  
The Past ◽  
Complex Interactions ◽  
Greek Cypriot ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Practice Framework ◽  
Greek Cypriots

AbstractThe past two decades have seen an explosion of interest in interactionally orientated perspectives on identity. The Community of Practice framework was employed by sociolinguists working within this paradigm because it firmly grounds identity in social practice seeing it as a process that speakers engage in during actual interactions. Interest in variation within communities of practice is growing, as the well-boundedness of linguistic and social concepts (including identity and language) is increasingly questioned. The current article develops this perspective by exploring code-switching practices of British-born Greek-Cypriots in two distinct contexts: community meetings and a dinner. Findings indicate that this community of practice does not constitute a uniform entity: complex interactions transpire between local and global variables including gender, community-specific setups, contexts, and discourse types. The study also problematizes the concepts core and periphery, used to describe variation within communities of practice, offering a revised understanding of practice, which focuses on silent participation. (Code-switching, community of practice, Greek-Cypriot, gender, identity, individual variation)

scholarly journals Describing the past: Tartu-Moscow School ideas on history, historiography, and the historian's craft

2015 ◽  
Vol 43 (2/3) ◽  
pp. 269-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Taras Boyko
Keyword(s):  
The Past ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Research Agendas ◽  
Moscow School

The article provides a survey of some milestone works of representatives of the Tartu-Moscow School (Juri Lotman, Boris Uspensky and Vladimir Toporov) focused on the topic of history, approaches to the past, historiographical strategies, the essence of the historian’s craft, etc. Although these topics associated with the problem of history for the most part remained marginal in the research agendas of the Tartu-Moscow School, still a number of scholars affiliated with the School voiced novel and interesting thoughts and proposals regarding history and the historian’s craft, and to some extent even catalyzed new discussions and spotlighted previously disregarded research problems. The current article intends to give a brief overview of the most important and influential ideas on the topics found in the works of the Tartu-Moscow School scholars.

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